Cover for sinks provided with sprinkling means



Ju ne 28, 1938. G. FREDRIKSON vCOVER FOR SINKS PROVIDED WITH SPRINKLING MEANS Filed Nov. 24, 19s? mur Fredn k'son f Patented-M1528;1938 2,121,35

N T 'DY TAT' S- AT NT b ew a I oovnnron smnsrnovrnnn WITH I SPRINKLING MEANS Gunnar Fredrikson, Stockholm, Sweden Application November 24, 1937, Serial No. 116,153 v I 1 In Sweden October 20.11936 7 1 Claims. (o1; 141-9) The present invention relates to covers for Verse direction of the sink on stands are thus sinks providedwith asprinkling device'and parsprayed equally-on both sides.

ticularly tocovers of the kind having a guide slot The cover is flat and overlaps to some extent l r I V in which a sprinkling nozzle is moved to and fro the edged the sink. The flat shape of the cover during the sprinkling. provides a working surface over the whole dish- Covers of this kind havev the drawback of neceswashing table when the sprinkling nozzle has sitating the disjointing of'the sprinkling nozzle, been removed from the slot.

1 when the latter is removed from the cover. Fur- The cover is fixed to the rear wall of the sink ther, a quick removal or replacing of the nozzle by means of hinges it fixed to the underside of I in position over the sink is not possible. The inthe cover and adapted to be pushed down into 1 venti'on aims at eliminating these drawbacks and j grooves it in the rear wall thereof, so that the is characterized, among other features, thereby cover at choice may be swung open or entirely that the guide slot, which separates the cover removed from the sink. substantially along the center thereof into two Having now described my invention, what I connected parts, extends toone edge of the cover claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 15 so that the sprinkling nozzle can be inserted into Patent is: v r l and moved from said slot sidewise through the 1. In a dishwashing device a sprinkling nozzle, edge of the cover, the means connecting the two' means to connect said nozzle to a water supply, 7 parts of the cover being disposed outside the cona removable flat cover for a sink comprising two v tinuous pathaof said nozzle in its movement connected parts separated by a slot, and guide through said 'edge'and along said slot. means movable with said nozzle to guide it'longi- An embodiment of the invention is illustrated tudinally of said slot below said cover, said slot in the accompanyingdrawing. extending to one edge of the cover, whereby the .Figure 1 shows a sink provided with a cover nozzle with said connecting means'can be inserted 5 viewed from above, 1 into and removed from said slot sidewise through Figure 2 is a-section on line II- II of Figure 1,- the said edge of the cover, and the means conand V V necting said two parts of the cover being disposed Figure 3 is a section on line III-III, of Figure outside 'the'continuous paths of'said nozzle and i 2 on a larger scale. first mentioned connecting means in their move- In the drawing the sink is indicated by I, the ment through said edge into and along said slot. 30 cover by 2, the guide slot, provided therein, by 3 2. A dishwashing device as claimed in claim 1, and the sprinkling nozzle by '4. The sprinkling in which said means for connecting the two parts nozzle, which has an operating handle 9, is conof the cover include a downwardly projecting nected with the water main by means of a hose 5. member having therein an opening terminating in The guide slot 3 is open at one or both end porsaid slot, said nozzle having a vertical cross-sec- 35 tions' and the two parts of the cover separated tion smaller than the area of said op by the slot are held together by means .of a pref- 3. A dishwashing device as claimed in claim 1, erably downward directed yoke member In of a in which said means for connecting the two parts shape to allow passing of the sprinkling nozzle f the ov r include a IlOWnWardlY p j c 40 when it is inserted into or removed from the yoke disposed adjacent one end of id sl t, said 40 guide slot sidewise through the edge of the cover. le h v a v rti l ross-section smaller Along the guide slot, there are stationarily disthan the area surrounded by said yoke. posed parallel guides Ha which engage resiliently 4. In a dishwashing device, a cover for a sink aguide block ll secured to an intermediary mema in a n t d al guide s t, a sp k n her Sconnecting the sprinkling nozzle with the nozzle, guide means movable withsaid nozzle to 45 hose; In order to obtain anoiseless movement of de t lo g u y f S d 01? below Said the block when the sprinkling nozzle is moved to e and resilient longitudinally extending and fro in the guide slot the block is preferably guides dependin r m h l n i n l ed es of made of'wood, bakelite or the like, The fricsaid slot to engage said guide means on said tion surface between the block II and the guide nozzle. 50 member I la'is reduced by providing longitudinally 5. A dishwashing device as claimed in claim extending inward projections l2 or the like on 4, in which said guides have longitudinally exthe guides Ila. By means of the guides Ila and e d ng inward p ojec o t engage Said guide the guide block H a steady guiding of the sp-rinmeans on a reduced surface. 55 kling nozzle is obtained, which is very'important 55 because plates placed vertically and in trans- GUNNAR FREDRIKSON. 

